I watched the website of Camstudio and it looks guite interesting also because it is free software!
But when I wanted to download the program, my Eset antivirus suite blocked the download website as being malicious. I scanned the setup-program at virustotal.com and there were a lot of well known anti-virus software manufactures warning for potential risc: https://www.virustotal.com/nl/file/a...is/1445423269/
I know sometimes a scanner returns a generic code because the program is rather unknown to the scanner or the program makes changes in the registry. In this case no results are generic codes.
Maybe some more experienced users can chime in on this?

Hi Peter, I would recommend you to use Open Broadcaster Software.
It can be used to stream the video live or just save it as a file in your hard drive instead. You can define to capture all monitors or just one region, or program window, and your webcam at the same time if needed etc...
It's free open source and greathttps://obsproject.com/

I watched the website of Camstudio and it looks guite interesting also because it is free software!
But when I wanted to download the program, my Eset antivirus suite blocked the download website as being malicious. I scanned the setup-program at virustotal.com and there were a lot of well known anti-virus software manufactures warning for potential risc:

I tried CamStudio (from SourceForge) a few days ago. Yep, Yahoo took over my browsers homepage and search. Even when I uninstalled camstudio and changed settings, I had problems. It installed a exe which kept changing the settings of my browsers. I found the exe by searching for the recently modified *.exe on my system and terminated & deleted it. (it wasn't part of CamStudio)

Hi Peter, I would recommend you to use Open Broadcaster Software.
It can be used to stream the video live or just save it as a file in your hard drive instead. You can define to capture all monitors or just one region, or program window, and your webcam at the same time if needed etc...
It's free open source and greathttps://obsproject.com/

Another vote for OBS. A little "difficult" to set up but once done it records audio and video in sync and doesn't kill the frame rate.

I think you would have to not move the VST window, and then crop a display capture or window capture to just capture this part of the screen. You can crop by SHIFT+ALT+drag the red circles handles when you select a source.

On windows 10 I can use the xbox app and use WINkey +G fto open the game bar. Here I can chose to record the app; if it's not a known game, xbox app requires you to check the mark 'yes this is a game'....

If you want a screen capturing video software to record a reaper project, you can try FoneLab screen recorder.
It enables you to record audio, video, and webcam contents without lag.
So you can record sound, game screen, online meetings and more as you want.

I tried several tools to create easy screencaps of all kinds and oCam was just the best. You draw a green frame around the object you want to record. Hit your hotkeys and that's it. You can directly render to gif or any video format. You can make still images. Absolutely no problems.
Start the application! Adjust the frame. Hit F2 once to record. Hit F2 a second time to stop. Hit shift+F2 to pause etc.

I'd like to mention another method to easily create screen videos. This method makes use ot ffmpeg's command line capabilities. I've been using plenty of screen capturing software (BandiCam, OBS, CamStudio, Easy Screencast Recorder, VirtualDub, etc.). Unfortunetely, all of them had their quirks (payed, adds/watermarks, time limit, a/v sync issues, hassle to set up, etc.). I finaly settled on using either OBS (several audio tracks recorded simultaneously with the video, like Reaper output plus my voice on a separate audio stream to be able to mix them as desired later) or VirtualDub and video quality is fine. Both don't have a time limit.

I then read about ffmpeg and its command line capabilities. Generally, I don't like using command line apps. I prefer to have a gui. However, I found some example command lines suitable for screen capturing and I managed to hack together a few batch files that allow me to capture my entire screen or parts of it by simply double-clicking shortcuts to those batch files. I'm sharing the batch files here. The advantages I'm seeing are:

no cost

very quick launch of screen recording for a few different video resolutions, video image/audio stream qualities and capturing areas - everything is pre-configured in the batch files

copy and paste the following command line into a plain text editor and save it as a batch file (i.e. with the extension ".bat") to a desired location.
Here's the command line to record the entire screen in decent quality in FullHD incl. mouse pointer and with aac stereo audio @ 320 kbps captured from an RME Babyface ADAT 1+2:

To determin which video capturing device and what audio devices can be used on your system and what their exact system name is, run the following batch command after adapting the path to ffmpeg.exe to the one on your system:

You may then replace the audio device's name in my example command line (Babyface ADAT 1+2) to match your audio device's name.

Only minor drawback of the batch file method is the inability to easily define a custom capture region. You have to edit the batch file for this. To at least facilitate this process, I'm using the free Fast Stone Capture utility to find out the coordinates of a particular screen area by triggering a screen area capture and then copy the values shown into the offset command of the batch file.

Have fun!

EDIT (2019-04-02): Meanwhile I've found the command line to capture 2 stereo sources simultaneously into the same video file:

Thanks SonicAxiom! That works really nice! I made an interface in VB.Net years ago to capture with ffmpeg with some basic settings, but I must of been using the wrong params because my captures would always playback at ~2x normal speed LOL!

I literally avoided messing around with ffmpeg and basically any command line tool until I recently came across a simple screen video capturing batch file which caught my attention and made me wanna dive into it and add the missing commands to make it complete for my needs which is being able to change video dimension, frame rate, capture area, selection of prefered video and audio codec and their bit rates, include mouse or not.

You can use ShareX to easily define the region. It uses ffmpeg to capture screen to make videos or gifs. You can also set a custom command for ffmpeg in Screen recording options window. You can even have different commands for each keyboard shortcut with different regions predefined.

You can use ShareX to easily define the region. It uses ffmpeg to capture screen to make videos or gifs. You can also set a custom command for ffmpeg in Screen recording options window. You can even have different commands for each keyboard shortcut with different regions predefined.

Thanks for mentioning ShareX, heda. I've tried it a while ago. It actually looked very promising, however, though I'm fairly familiar with programs that offer an overwhelming amount of tweaking options (I'm happily using Reaper !) configuration is a bit overkill for my taste. The software is not really focussed and stripped down to solely handle screen video capturing. It's pretty sad, actually because it's free, portable and open source - three of my favourite features a software can offer. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find an ffmpeg setting with it that produces stutter-free video captures that are lip-sync'ed on my machine while it does work without any glitches when I'm using my batch files that are virtually using the same ffmpeg commands.

Is licecap good for that? Just looking for a simple program that can make an accurate recording of what I see on my computer monitors, so I can send it to my film making collaborators.
Thanks!

I was originally using ShareX but ran into problems with it recording audio. In end I switched to OBS Studio, which is really easy to use and you can define regions should you wish. Only thin you may need to do in Reaper is change the Audio System from ASIO to WaveOut - If using a Windows PC.

Thanks a lot for sharing! I'll use your method for sure! It's super easy and powerful.

you're welcome! great it works for you, too, vitalker.

Basically, I'm actually not saying that this method is better than anything else. I'm pretty familiar with common screen capturing software solutions and I'm actually using some regularly. The batch file method is just so much simpler and doesn't require messing with bigger apps once you have your favourite batch file configured let's say for simple full HD capturing.

I'm now searching for command line parameters to make it capture two separate stereo (= 4 track) audio sources simultaneously without merging them into a single stereo stream to mimic what OBS is doing (like Reaper output on stereo stream 1 and voice commentary on stereo stream 2). ffmpeg should be capable of doing this. It's just not easy to find working command line templates for this and hence, requires some time-consuming research. Anyone having an idea of what commands are needed?

As always, you'll have to adjust the code to your paths and audio devices.

additional notes:

I'm using FreeAudioVideoPack to extract both audio streams from the captured video to be able to insert them into two audio tracks in Reaper

For some unknown reasons, resulting audio streams are different from what I'm declaring in the command line! Stream 1 is recorded as vorbis 112 kbps and stream 2 is recorded as aac 256 kbps. I can't seem to figure out why atm. At least it is possible to capture 2x streo simultaneously, further reducing my need for OBS or other apps

audio streams seem to not be totally in sync with the video. I'm nudging them manually in Reaper.

it wasn't easy to find a working command. Hours of tial and error. A lot of folks will be happy capturing just a single stereo stream along with the screen video where everything gets mixed together (due to audio interface restrictions/simplicity). However, it's nice to have the option to capture both sources separately if necessary..